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“The snow man” is a poem about two realities —the reality of winter , and the reality we create when we bring our own perspective.Stevens describes the snow man who can identify his own emotional baggage and and see that the world is not really nothing without the emotional baggage.According to David Perkins “ the poem posits two types of listener. One would hear a "misery in the sound of the wind." Through his own imaginative creativity he would project a human emotion into the scene and locate it there. Thus, he would make the landscape one with which human beings can feel sympathy. The other listener would hear nothing more than the sound of the wind. He would exert none of this spontaneous and almost inevitable creativity. The poem

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